All Discussions Tagged 'Catholic' - Atheist Nexus2017-10-16T22:46:08Zhttp://atheistnexus.org/group/atheistnews/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Catholic&feed=yes&xn_auth=noA straight up truth from Pope Frankie's mouth!tag:atheistnexus.org,2015-12-01:2182797:Topic:26581762015-12-01T23:47:56.443ZBertold Brautiganhttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/BertoldBrautigan
<p><strong>Pope says fundamentalism is 'disease of all religions'</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Aboard the papal plane (AFP) - Pope Francis said fundamentalism is "a disease of all religions", including the Roman Catholic Church, as he returned from a three-nation tour of Africa in which he preached reconciliation and hope.</p>
<p>"Fundamentalism is always a tragedy. It is not religious, it lacks God, it is idolatrous," the Argentine pontiff told journalists on the plane back from the Central…</p>
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<p><strong>Pope says fundamentalism is 'disease of all religions'</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Aboard the papal plane (AFP) - Pope Francis said fundamentalism is "a disease of all religions", including the Roman Catholic Church, as he returned from a three-nation tour of Africa in which he preached reconciliation and hope.</p>
<p>"Fundamentalism is always a tragedy. It is not religious, it lacks God, it is idolatrous," the Argentine pontiff told journalists on the plane back from the Central African Republic.</p>
<p>. . . "We Catholics, we have a few, even many fundamentalists. They believe they know absolute truth and corrupt others," he said, adding: "I can say this because this is my Church."</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, "believing they know absolute truth" and "corrupting others" is also the mainstay of the entire Catholic religion. One simple case in point. When confronted with their misogyny, they claim they have no power to change their policies because they're directly based on god's will. If that's not the height of arrogance, hypocrisy and bad faith, I don't know what is.</p>
<p>He didn't mention, of course, that the only way to root out the disease is to root out the religions.</p> Woman pulled over by Santa Rosa (FL) county sheriff deputy for disrespect of Eucharisttag:atheistnexus.org,2011-01-28:2182797:Topic:10963572011-01-28T21:55:24.705ZThe Big Blue Froghttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/TheBigBlueFrog
<p><a href="http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/communion-36658-navarre-priest.html">In Navarre, Florida,</a> a woman was pulled over by a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputy because her 19-year old daughter may have disrespected the flesh of her Savior.</p>
<p>You may remember that this is the same county where, back in 2009, Pace High School principal Frank Lay and Athletic Director Robert Freeman were sued by the ACLU for initiating prayers at school functions. Lay and Freeman chose to violate a…</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/communion-36658-navarre-priest.html">In Navarre, Florida,</a> a woman was pulled over by a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputy because her 19-year old daughter may have disrespected the flesh of her Savior.</p>
<p>You may remember that this is the same county where, back in 2009, Pace High School principal Frank Lay and Athletic Director Robert Freeman were sued by the ACLU for initiating prayers at school functions. Lay and Freeman chose to violate a court injunction and continued to pray at school-sponsored events. They were eventually cleared of contempt-of-court charges, but not before the campus theocracy in the Santa Rosa School System was stamped out.</p>
<p>Now it seems that yet another county agency has become an arm of Christian activism.</p>
<p>Read more at my blog <a href="http://www.bluefrogdesignstudios.com/wordpress/?p=994" target="_blank">here.</a> You can find the whole story <a href="http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/communion-36658-navarre-priest.html" target="_blank">at the Northwest Florida Daily News website.</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.bluefrogdesignstudios.com/thebluefrogsays/" target="_blank">The Blue Frog Says...</a></p> Don't Let Her Die: Emergency Abortions Must Be Performed At All Hospitalstag:atheistnexus.org,2010-12-18:2182797:Topic:10579562010-12-18T04:24:10.433ZKenneth Soareshttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/KennethSoares
In a disturbing development, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix is pressuring one of the nation's largest hospital systems to stop providing life-saving abortions. This extreme stance by the diocese was made public yesterday after the media published a vitriolic letter that the Bishop of Phoenix, Thomas Olmsted, wrote to Catholic Healthcare West (CHW).<br />
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This issue stems from an abortion that was performed in a Phoenix hospital, St. Joseph's, which is part of CHW, in November 2009. The woman,…
In a disturbing development, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix is pressuring one of the nation's largest hospital systems to stop providing life-saving abortions. This extreme stance by the diocese was made public yesterday after the media published a vitriolic letter that the Bishop of Phoenix, Thomas Olmsted, wrote to Catholic Healthcare West (CHW).<br />
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This issue stems from an abortion that was performed in a Phoenix hospital, St. Joseph's, which is part of CHW, in November 2009. The woman, a young mother of four children, would have died if she did not receive an abortion.<br />
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<a href="http://community.feministing.com/2010/12/16/dont-let-her-die-emergency-abortions-must-be-performed-at-all-hospitals/">http://community.feministing.com/2010/12/16/dont-let-her-die-emergency-abortions-must-be-performed-at-all-hospitals/</a><br />
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This exactly the kind of stupidity one would expect from the catholic church. Brendan O’Neil: "The White Atheists’ Burden: save the savages"tag:atheistnexus.org,2010-09-17:2182797:Topic:9778652010-09-17T17:02:37.155ZThe Big Blue Froghttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/TheBigBlueFrog
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">There are two problems with this super-simplistic moral equation of ‘pope + anti-condom propaganda = death’. First, it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, since AIDS is most widespread in minority-Catholic African countries, where most people are not in thrall to the men of Rome; and second, it is underpinned by some deep, dark prejudices of its own, prejudices that make the Vatican’s pronouncements seem relatively mild in comparison. The idea that a pope speaks and…</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">There are two problems with this super-simplistic moral equation of ‘pope + anti-condom propaganda = death’. First, it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, since AIDS is most widespread in minority-Catholic African countries, where most people are not in thrall to the men of Rome; and second, it is underpinned by some deep, dark prejudices of its own, prejudices that make the Vatican’s pronouncements seem relatively mild in comparison. The idea that a pope speaks and Africans die – or as one supposedly rationalist writer describes it: ‘the power of ideas to do great evil’ (1) – is based on a view of Africans as fundamentally incapable of judging the moral worth or factual accuracy of ideas, and as being little more than empty vessels waiting to be filled with popish bull. It ironically rehabilitates the old Christian-crusader view of Africans as needing to be saved, only disguised in anti-religion lingo.</div>
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<p>As an atheist and a skeptic, I sometimes have trouble challenging my own ideas with the same kind of scrutiny I challenge others'. <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9583/">This article</a> points out some facts that are not consistent with the current "party line" on the Pope and his effects on the fight against AIDS in Africa.</p>
<p>Read it and let me know what you think. Are we overestimating the power of the Catholic Church in Africa?</p> I'm sure it was a loving, Christian car bomb, which is why the Church and U.K. government covered it up.tag:atheistnexus.org,2010-08-24:2182797:Topic:9553812010-08-24T18:01:38.950ZJo Jeromehttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/MaryWood
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100824/ts_nm/us_irish_bomb_priest_2">Catholic Church and U.K. Government in Bomb Coverup</a><div><br></br></div>
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<i>CLAUDY, Northern Ireland (Reuters) – The British government and the Catholic Church colluded to protect a priest suspected of involvement in a 1972 bombing in Northern Ireland that killed 9 people, an official report said on Tuesday.<br />
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<i>CLAUDY, Northern Ireland (Reuters) – The British government and the Catholic Church colluded to protect a priest suspected of involvement in a 1972 bombing in Northern Ireland that killed 9 people, an official report said on Tuesday.<br />
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The Police Ombudsman's report revealed that an Irish cardinal was involved in transferring Father James Chesney out of British-ruled Northern Ireland, highlighting again the role of the Church hierarchy in protecting priests against allegations of criminal activity.</i><br />
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Granted this was some time ago and the priest is long dead, never having to answer for his suspected crime. But once again, the collar gives one a pass to fondle children, embezzle, murder... Catholic Priest Blesses Iron Chariotstag:atheistnexus.org,2010-07-27:2182797:Topic:9242182010-07-27T14:10:37.415ZThe Big Blue Froghttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/TheBigBlueFrog
<p><a href="http://republicanherald.com/news/priest-blesses-cars-for-faithful-1.903465">From the thriving metropolis of Frackville, PA:</a></p>
<p>"Neither has Helen Hopko or Al Gursky, both of Frackville. Or Dorothy or Walter Jaskierski, Saint Clair. But that didn't stop them from having their cars blessed Sunday after Mass at St. John the Baptist Polish National Catholic Church."</p>
<p>The priest, Rev. Robert P. Plichta, committing the same fallacy of logic as his parishioners, said "In…</p>
<p><a href="http://republicanherald.com/news/priest-blesses-cars-for-faithful-1.903465">From the thriving metropolis of Frackville, PA:</a></p>
<p>"Neither has Helen Hopko or Al Gursky, both of Frackville. Or Dorothy or Walter Jaskierski, Saint Clair. But that didn't stop them from having their cars blessed Sunday after Mass at St. John the Baptist Polish National Catholic Church."</p>
<p>The priest, Rev. Robert P. Plichta, committing the same fallacy of logic as his parishioners, said "In Poland, there was twice where I didn't say a prayer, 'under thy protection ...' and I had two accidents - somebody hit me, I hit somebody. Minor. But now I say every time. It's important for somebody who believes."</p>
<p>I wonder if he does drive-thru blessings?</p> Catholic Church 500 years later; "Maybe the whole Earth-revolving-around-the-sun thing isn't so whacky an idea after all."tag:atheistnexus.org,2010-05-25:2182797:Topic:8349172010-05-25T23:19:45.468ZJo Jeromehttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/MaryWood
<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7134341.ece">And decide to rebury Copernicus with honor this time.</a><div><br></br></div>
<div>Things I hope our descendants can look forward to 500-1,000 years from now: </div>
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<div>- Honoring the condom</div>
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<div>- Taking the 'pompous' out of the 'pompus ass' title for Richard Dawkins (Hey, these things take time)</div>
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<div>- Start prosecuting instead of protecting child…</div>
<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7134341.ece">And decide to rebury Copernicus with honor this time.</a><div><br/></div>
<div>Things I hope our descendants can look forward to 500-1,000 years from now: </div>
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<div>- Taking the 'pompous' out of the 'pompus ass' title for Richard Dawkins (Hey, these things take time)</div>
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<div>- Start prosecuting instead of protecting child abusing priests</div> Pope Benedict XVI knew child abuser allowed back to worktag:atheistnexus.org,2010-03-26:2182797:Topic:7718332010-03-26T15:36:52.797ZAidenhttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/Aiden
The Roman Catholic Church’s account of Pope Benedict XVI’s handing of a serial paedophile was called into question today when new documents emerged suggesting that his office was kept informed of the offender’s rapid return to working with children.<br></br>
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Contrary to statements released by the Church in Germany, a memorandum uncovered by The New York Times suggests that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was told that a priest had gone back to pastoral duties in Munich a few days after he started…
The Roman Catholic Church’s account of Pope Benedict XVI’s handing of a serial paedophile was called into question today when new documents emerged suggesting that his office was kept informed of the offender’s rapid return to working with children.<br/>
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Contrary to statements released by the Church in Germany, a memorandum uncovered by The New York Times suggests that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was told that a priest had gone back to pastoral duties in Munich a few days after he started psychiatric treatment. The priest went on to commit further offences.<br/>
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The latest child abuse scandal to hit the Catholic Church involves a German priest, Father Peter Hullermann, who was convicted of molesting boys in 1986. Victims have complained that repeated warnings were ignored by the Church over decades of abuse. <br/>
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[<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7077196.ece">Full Story</a>] Sinead won't shut up about the Church. I love her for it.tag:atheistnexus.org,2010-03-24:2182797:Topic:7691622010-03-24T13:56:21.121ZDiana Dhttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/DianaD
An article from Salon.com about Sinead O'Connor's continuing protest against the Catholic Church in the wake of new information about the sex abuse scandals in the Irish Catholic Church. Some great stuff in the comments too.<div><br/></div>
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An article from Salon.com about Sinead O'Connor's continuing protest against the Catholic Church in the wake of new information about the sex abuse scandals in the Irish Catholic Church. Some great stuff in the comments too.<div><br/></div>
<div><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/catholicism/index.html?story=/mwt/broadsheet/2010/03/23/sinead_o_connor_pope">http://www.salon.com/news/catholicism/index.html?story=/mwt/broadsheet/2010/03/23/sinead_o_connor_pope</a></div> Documents show links between Prop. 8 campaign and church leaders [Updated]tag:atheistnexus.org,2010-01-21:2182797:Topic:6947342010-01-21T05:10:56.316ZTedsterhttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/tedster
<h1 class="entry-header"><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/documents-show-close-links-between-prop-8-campaign-and-mormon-catholic-churches.html" rel="bookmark" title="Documents show links between Prop. 8 campaign and church leaders [Updated]">Documents show links between Prop. 8 campaign<br></br> and church leaders [Updated]</a></h1>
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<p>Documents unveiled during today's federal same-sex marriage trial revealed close links between the Proposition 8 campaign and leaders of <br/>
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<p>Over the objections of defenders of Proposition 8, challengers presented an e-mail that said the Catholic Church played a substantial <br/>
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